Invertebrate medicine / Gregory A. Lewbart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewbart, Greg.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Invertebrates--Diseases.

Invertebrates.

Veterinary medicine.

Physical Description:

xv, 327 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Summary:

Invertebrates make up over 95 percent of the Earth's animal species. For many years, invertebrates have been kept as pets, displayed in aquariums and zoos, used for research, and consumed. Despite the wide range of uses and the environmental and economic importance of these species, the veterinary profession has paid relatively little attention to this huge part of the animal kingdom.

Invertebrate Medicine is the single most comprehensive resource available today on invertebrate animal medicine. It is not meant to be a definitive natural history of invertebrates, but rather it provides basic biology as well as state-of-the-science information pertaining to medicine and clinical conditions. Coverage includes sponges, jellyfish, anemones, corals, snails, squids, octopuses, clams, oysters, horseshoe crabs, spiders, scorpions, crabs, crayfish, lobsters, shrimp, hermit crabs, centipedes, millipedes, insects, starfish, sea urchins, and dozens more. Although the taxonomic scope is broad, emphasis is on invertebrates harvested for food or maintained in captivity.

Contents:

Chapter 2 Sponges / Gregory A. Lewbart 7

Chapter 3 Coelenterates / Michael K. Stoskopf 19

Chapter 4 Turbellarians / Michael S. Bodri 53

Chapter 5 Gastropods / Roxanna Smolowitz 65

Chapter 6 Cephalopods / Joseph M. Scimeca 79

Chapter 7 Bivalves / Jay F. Levine, Mac Law, Flavio Corsin 91

Chapter 8 Annelids / Gregory A. Lewbart 115

Color Plate Section

Chapter 9 Horseshoe Crabs / Stephen A. Smith 133

Chapter 10 Spiders / Romain Pizzi 143

Chapter 11 Scorpions / Fredric L. Frye 169

Chapter 12 Crustaceans / Edward J. Noga, Amy L. Hancock, Robert A. Bullis 179

Chapter 13 Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes) / John R. Chitty 195

Chapter 14 Insects / John E. Cooper 205

Chapter 15 Nematodes / Michael S. Bodri 221

Chapter 16 Chaetognaths (Arrowworms) / Laura Foster 235

Chapter 17 Echinoderms / Craig A. Harms 245

Chapter 18 Urochordates / Robert S. Bakal 257

Chapter 19 Diagnostic Techniques and Sample Handling / Ilze K. Berzins, Roxanna Smolowitz 263

Chapter 20 Laws, Rules, and Regulating Agencies for Invertebrates / Daniel S. Dombrowski 275

Appendix 1 Invertebrate Neoplasms / Esther C. Peters 297

Appendix 2 Diseases of Invertebrates Notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) 301

Appendix 3 Euthanasia / Michael J. Murray 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813818443

OCLC:

60743129

Publisher Number:

9780813818443